City and town managers' offices · Illinois

Public Works Utillity

West Chicago, IL · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Utillity runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

Public Works Utillity: 3.9 TCR = 120% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Utillity safety composite

Public Works Utillity scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Public Works Utillity: 0.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2018

Public Works Utillity's TCR rose 7.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 120% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #30/104
  • PHOTO City of New Haven - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of New Haven - City Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works Utillity in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Public Works Utillity averages 3.9 TCR (120% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Public Works Utillity TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works Utillity falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 104 City and town managers' office employers in Illinois.

Public Works Utillity (22 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Utillity
Public Works Utillity (22 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Public Works Utillity has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 7.7 3.9 1 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IL · West Chicago

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR City of New Haven - City Hall 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAC CENTRO DE GOBIERNO EDIFICIO ANGEL RIVERA RODRIGUEZ ORH 12108 00 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bangor Charter Township 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Washougal 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Iowa 80 Group 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Westwood Hills Nursing & Rehab 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Open Systems Healthcare - WPB 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lehigh Lansdale - Hagerstown - DTI 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skowhegan Consolidation Building 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pig 'N Pancake - Cannon Beach 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Precision LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana American Water-Jeffersonville District 22 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.